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The Northeast of this era, basically not much development, from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan line, is already an area of early development in Liaodong, now along the way in addition to the military forts every dozens of miles, as far as the pedestrian can see, it is also a wilderness.

Of course, in the wilderness, from time to time, you can see some dilapidated villages and abandoned farmland.

The land here is fertile, and it was originally the land of fish and rice outside the Guan, but since the rise of the war in Liaodong, for more than 30 years, there has not been a single peaceful day to live.

One day in May, on the official road not far from Shanhaiguan, a mother and son came, the mother was sitting on a small wheelwheel, and the son, who looked to be in his early twenties, was pushing behind.

Today's Liaodong, the Jurchen Houjin Kingdom, has changed to a Great Khan, and the treatment of Han people is not as vicious as when the old slaves were alive in the past.

However, the Han people in Liaodong have been really afraid of being robbed and killed over the years, but whenever they have the opportunity, they will take their family property and flee into the customs.

The veterans on duty in the towers of Balipu outside Shanhaiguan can see groups of Han people from time to time, coming from the north, helping the old and the young to go south.

Nowadays, there is a rise of people in the customs to settle in the country, and a large number of refugees outside the customs are going south.

Normally, when encountering Liaodong refugees from the north, these kind-hearted veterans never made things difficult, and some let them go south to enter the customs without even asking.

But the mother and son who came today don't look like refugees on the run. And looking at this young man's outfit, it seems that he is still an officer and soldier in Liaodong Town, and I am afraid that he is still a small official.

Could it be a fugitive from Liaodong Town? But haven't you heard that Jiannu is coming? This old soldier, who belonged to the former guard of Shanhaiguan, stood on the top of the watchtower and thought about it, then leaned out from behind the arrow stack and asked from a distance: "Wu Na man, what are you doing?" But do you want to go into the city to get through? ”

The young man pushing the cart on the official road stopped the cart, said a few words to his mother, and then took out a sign and an official document from a bag, and did not speak, but waved to the old soldier on the watchtower.

After a while, a small soldier ran from the watchtower, took the things in the young man's hand, and ran back to the watchtower with a smoke.

After a while, the voice of the old soldier came from the watchtower, and he was heard to say: "Your name is Huang Degong?!" You are the famous Huang Chuangzi?! ”

The young man laughed when he heard this, and said, "Brother Lao Jun, please!" The brother is Huang Chuangzi. I don't want to come to this Shanhaiguan, and some people have heard of our brother's nickname! ”

I only heard the old soldier say again: "That's it, who doesn't know that Huang Chuangzi's name is from the north!" Brother Huang, you and your wife wait a minute! ”

After a while, the little soldier hurried out again, and respectfully returned the token and official document he had taken to the young man, and gave the young man an additional document for customs clearance.

The young man smiled, put away the paperwork together, and shouted at the old army on the tower: "Brother old army, then there will be a period later!" ”

After saying this, he pushed up the wheelbarrow again and walked all the way to the closed door not far ahead.

This young man is naturally the Yasukuni Gonghuang of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Huang Degong's ancestor is the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's fellow townsman, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the rebellion, defected to Zhu Yuanzhang's rebel army, since then the south and the north war, and then the world was pacified, sealed under the command of one of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons Liao Wang, so for 200 years they settled in Kaiyuanwei, branching out.

Later, the Liao King withdrew from the domain, and most of them moved inward, and by the time of Huang Degong's generation, his father's branch became an ordinary military household.

In the late Wanli period, the Jurchens rose, and Nurhachi fought everywhere outside the pass, not only conquering Fushun and Shenyang, but also slaughtering Tieling and Kaiyuan.

Huang Degong's father, when Huang Degong was very young, died in the battle with the Jurchens, a huge family, also when Nurhachi captured Kaiyuan, and slaughtered the city, all of them were killed, his mother fled to Jinzhou with him, and then pulled him up with hard work.

At the beginning of the Apocalypse, Huang Degong, who was more than ten years old, had already followed the army of Liaodong Town to fight against Jianguo when he was still not in the army, and he had won many victories. is to rely on the silver obtained by killing the Jurchen and taking the head to support his mother.

After becoming an adult, Huang Degong naturally enlisted directly in the army as a big soldier, and then fought all the way, relying on the bloody nature of competing for the first place in every battle, mixed with the nickname of Huang Chuangzi, and now he has become a general of Xingshan Fort.

This time, when Liaodong Town recommended candidates for admission to the Jingshi Lecture Martial Arts Hall, Huang Degong, who had always been fearless of death, was quickly selected. And this time I went south to Shanhaiguan, I wanted to enter Beijing to study in the lecture hall.

When Huang Degong was a child, his family was still well-off, and he studied in a private school for two years, which was considered a rough language, but he was still a rough person after all.

So this time he was selected, saying that he was going to study, Huang Degong's heart was still a little resistant, feeling that he was not reading material at all, and the loss was to read military books, otherwise he would not go.

However, when Huang Degong went home and told his mother about this, his mother tried her best to persuade him to study in Beijing, because in the eyes of his old mother, studying was the right way.

And because Huang Degong's mother was filial, he was worried that his mother would have no one to take care of, so he had to take his old mother with him.

Huang Degong passed the Shanhaiguan, and the vision naturally changed, passing through the city and town, full of prosperity, and no longer the wilderness scene outside the pass.

Since the new emperor ascended to the pole, the imperial court reopened iron smelting and recruited people to reclaim land, although the new policy was implemented for more than half a year, but the appearance of the eastern part of Gyeonggi has undergone a significant change.

The ragged and kneeling beggars are almost extinct, and the newly built forts have been erected one by one, although the conditions are still very ordinary, but the victory is uniformity.

From time to time in the fields, you can see farmers working with lotus hoes, and groups of children playing happily at the intersection of the village where Huang Degong passed.

All of this reminded Huang Degong of his childhood.

At that time, Kaiyuan City was as peaceful as the current Guannai, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and they didn't have to worry about the Jianjiao who didn't know which direction they came from.

In this way, 24-year-old Huang Degong, with his old mother, left Shanhaiguan, which was overhauling the city, successively passed through Yongping, Qian'an, Zunhua, Jizhou, and Sanhe, and stayed overnight all the way, and finally arrived in Tongzhou at noon on the first day of the opening ceremony of the lecture hall.

The newly repaired Tongzhou city wall, after more than half a year of rushing work, is now already standing majestically, the city gate tower of the four city gates, all are made of brick and stone concrete, although there is no carved beam painting, but it is particularly magnificent and magnificent.

In addition to the south gate is a waterway, the repair is the water gate, the other three gates are all land, the east gate is against the three rivers, the north gate is against Shunyi, and the west gate is naturally against the Jingshi.

Just under the city tower of the Great East Gate of Tongzhou, Huang Degong met the people waiting for the lecture hall who were about to leave.

This tea shed to welcome the students of the martial arts hall is mainly to welcome the students from Jizhen, Shanhai, Liaodong, Dongjiang and other directions, and it has been set up for more than a month.

The two of them were on the phone, and they were all overjoyed, so they went to the martial arts hall together.

During these days, there were many young military attachés like Huang Degong, who rode alone for thousands of miles and came to report to the Jingshi Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and most of them were young talents recommended by the Jiubian Military Town. For example, Lu Hualin, Cao Dingjiao, Sun Zhixin in Liaodong Town, You Jinghe, Mao Youjian, Mao Shi in Dongjiang Town, Liu Zhaoji, Luo Dai, You Yangkun in Shanhai Town, Hou Gongji and Li Quan in Xuanfu Town, Zu Zeyuan and Wu Sangui in Datong Town, Mengruhu and Hu Dawei in Yansui Town, Mo Youjing and Li Hongsi in Gansu Town, Liu Tingjie and Huang Tingbi in Guyuan Town, and so on.

But there are also some that are recommended by the Shangshu Shilang in the court or the local governors, such as Hui Shixian, the younger brother of Hui Shiyang, the left waiter of the Criminal Department, Xu Dingguo recommended by Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun, Li Weiluan, recommended by Sun Guozhen, the governor of Denglai, and so on.

In addition, there are also some noble children, such as Wu Weihua, the younger brother of Wu Weiying, and so on. And, of course, there is Chengelbatu, the eldest son of Kundulun Khan of the Karaqin tribe of Eastern Mongolia.

Now when Emperor Chongzhen got the first phase of the admission list of Jiangwutang, he was very happy in his heart. The names of many of them have been read in the history books of later generations, and it can be said that he has admired them for a long time.

Although these people are still low-level petty officers, after a few years, they will become the mainstay of the Ming army's extermination of thieves and the conquest of Liaodong.

And the vast majority of them are loyal and righteous martyrs who would rather die than give in, and only a very few people finally surrendered to the Manchus. But in this life, I am afraid that they will no longer have the will or opportunity to surrender to the Manchus.